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National News
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Sir Keir Starmer has claimed Britain’s allies “understand” its move to suspend some arms exports to Israel, insisting it was a “legal not a policy decision”. The Prime Minister also argued “this isn’t an Israel issue” but the Government was required to follow the legal framework on licensing and keep them under review. The UK […]
The Government will “carefully consider” the findings of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry to “ensure that such a tragedy cannot occur again”, the Prime Minister has said. The inquiry’s final report, published on Wednesday, found the fire that killed 72 people in 2017 was the result of “decades of failure” by central government and the construction […]
The inquiry has found they failed to properly consider the danger of combustible materials in high-rise residential buildings The devastating Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people was the result of “decades of failure” by government and the construction industry to act on the dangers of flammable materials on high-rise buildings, a long-awaited report has found. The west […]
Scam-related complaints have reached their highest level since at least early 2018, according to a service that resolves disputes between consumers and financial firms. In the first quarter of this financial year (April 1 to June 30), consumers lodged 8,734 gripes about fraud and scams, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) said. More than half were in […]
Hundreds of healthcare support staff will stage a 48-hour strike from Wednesday in an escalating dispute over pay. Unison said its members at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust will walk out and mount picket lines outside hospitals. The union said it will be the first time healthcare support staff in London have gone on strike independently of national […]
Conservative MPs will take part in the first round of voting as they select a successor to Rishi Sunak. The first ballot in the Tory leadership contest will take place on Wednesday afternoon, which will begin the process of narrowing the list of the current six candidates. An announcement on the result of the first […]
A long-awaited report into the deaths of 72 people in a fire at Grenfell Tower is due to be published more than seven years after the blaze. The lengthy document – the final report of the inquiry into the 2017 disaster – is expected to lay out in detail its findings around the actions of […]
Steve Bruce is back in management with Sky Bet League One Blackpool. Bruce has signed a two-year contract to replace Neil Critchley, who was sacked on August 21 after opening the current campaign with successive defeats. The 63-year-old former Manchester United defender left his most recent role at West Brom in October 2022, just eight […]
Singer Sir Elton John has been left with “only limited vision” after a “severe eye infection”. The 77-year-old revealed he was healing from the infection in one eye, but said his recovery would take “some time”. In a post on Instagram, Sir Elton said: “Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a severe eye infection […]
A coroner has warned that a common way of giving anaesthetic to patients poses a risk of future deaths, after a woman was administered too much local anaesthetic by mistake and died three months later. Dr Rachel Gibson, who had severe osteoarthritis, had hip replacement surgery at Spire Lea Hospital in Cambridge on April 12, […]